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I use Arch on my desktop PC and I like it, but I don't really want it on a portable PC. If you don't stay up to date with the bleeding edge, you will undoubtedly have many problems with Arch. Stuff breaks all of the time and a lot of the maintenance is left to the user (and this seems to be getting worse over the years). I also dislike the fact that its package management system doesn't support partial updates (you want to reliably update something? Have to update everything. No clue if Debian is the same)

Usually you update everything at once in Debian. I don't doubt there is a way to update only a package and it's dependencies (and the dependencies' dependencies, etc.), but that means it will probably update most of the system anyway in quite a lot of cases. Don't know how you could do that in any other way unless you started having multiple versions of the same dependency and I don't know why one would want this.

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I use Arch on my desktop PC and I like it, but I don't really want it on a portable PC. If you don't stay up to date with the bleeding edge, you will undoubtedly have many problems with Arch. Stuff breaks all of the time and a lot of the maintenance is left to the user (and this seems to be getting worse over the years). I also dislike the fact that its package management system doesn't support partial updates (you want to reliably update something? Have to update everything. No clue if Debian is the same)

Usually you update everything at once in Debian. I don't doubt there is a way to update only a package and it's dependencies (and the dependencies' dependencies, etc.), but that means it will probably update most of the system anyway in quite a lot of cases. Don't know how you could do that in any other way unless you started having multiple versions of the same dependency and I don't know why one would want this.

Of course. -.-I knew it should be possible, but I didn't think of Synaptic (or just that default update manager of Ubuntu) although I must have used it /lots/ of times before switching to just doing "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade".

Never tried selecting just a few packages, but I still guess it must auto-select dependencies of the selected packages too.

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Now that we're talking about it, I think some memory of mine arises which says that there is a feature in Debian to keep a package from updating... it's called "hold"ing a package. Terrible, that unreliable piece of bloody meat.

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Ångström is some kind of pain in the ass, at least on the Pandora. It lacks a fully automated package management (At least I never found one), which means you have to download your software manually before you can install it.

So I think we need something with a user friendly and fast package manager. ...And of course, there must be stable sources, which may be the hardest part.

The only thing that annoys me about opkg is that it is very slow (at least on the Pandora), especially when it fails to find something. I end up doing "opkg list | grep foobar" instead of using opkg search.